The Artist and the Model

The Artist and the Model (French: L'artiste et son modèle, Spanish: El artista y la modelo) is a 2012 French-language Spanish drama film directed by Fernando Trueba and written by Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière. In 2012, Fernando Trueba was nominated for the Golden Shell and won the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. The year after, the film was nominated for 13 categories in the 27th Goya Awards, including Best Film and Best Director.

Plot
In the summer of 1943 in occupied France, a famous sculptor, tired of life, finds a desire to return to work with the arrival of a young Spanish woman who has escaped from a refugee camp and becomes his muse.

Cast

 * Jean Rochefort as Marc Cros
 * Aida Folch as Mercè
 * Claudia Cardinale as Léa
 * Götz Otto as Werner
 * Chus Lampreave as María
 * Christian Sinniger as Émile
 * Martin Gamet as Pierre
 * Mateo Deluz as Henri

Critical response
The Artist and the Model has an approval rating of 70% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 44 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10. Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".